Dios mediante, “God willing.” Si Dios quiere, “if God wants.” In 2020, the political scientist D. E. Vilchis Carrillo published a study in the journal Política y Cultura titled “Participaré… si Dios quiere” (I will take part… if God wants). He describes the two phrases as popular expressions of Mexican Catholic culture, which “se usaban cada vez que se expresaba algún deseo futuro” (were used whenever a wish for the future was expressed).